Terrorism
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 08:26
A car bomb exploded opposite City Plaza Hotel in Mogadishu on May 30, 2014.
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 07:29
The Obama administration confirmed Friday that a U.S. citizen took part in a suicide bombing in Syria, the first time that an American is believed to have done so in the three-year conflict there.
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 06:47
Bahrain and Tajikistan vowed to combat terrorism, whether bilaterally or multilaterally, through the Asian Co-operation Dialogue, the Non-Aligned Movement or the UN.
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 06:42
But as the group has spread its area of operations it has also become less centrally controlled. Noah Tucker said the IMU seemed "to exist almost as two different groups, one in Pakistan and one in Afghanistan."
Friday, May 30, 2014 - 11:18
This post examines providing training and support to elements of the Syrian opposition, President Obama's recent foreign policy speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the deteriorating security situation in Libya and several other top security stories from the region.
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 08:59
Iraqi Prime Minster Nuri Al-Maliki called for “jihad” against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq’s restive western Anbar province on Wednesday, pledging to crush the Islamist insurgency before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that is set to be begin in late June.
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 08:12
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 07:45
The United States has expressed skepticism that more than 200 schoolgirls held by Boko Haram militants had been located by the military, stating that it had no "independent information" on the matter.
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 07:00
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said Wednesday that “The situation in Syria is desperate, and we should be constantly assessing it for threats to U.S. security, but I am concerned that sending American weapons and training into this crisis could be like pouring gas on a fire,” Lee said.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 07:57
Last week, Tunisia's Interior Ministry reported that its forces had arrested eight Libyan militants who had entered the country with the aim of carrying out attacks against Tunisian officials. The ministry described the men as "Islamists." The news jangled nerves in a country that's already worried about contagion from the deepening turmoil in post-Qaddafi Libya. Tunisians, who have had their own troubles with religious militants, have followed the steadily rising tide of bombings, shootings, and militia escapades in their neighbor to the east.